Yager and Severance News

The two families were linked by friendship even before George Yager, Jr. married Pearl Severance in 1915. Now it's October 1920, and George and Alberta Severance have moved from Rockford, Illinois, to Gary to help his two married sisters (Mrs. Ray Burge had been Mary M. Severance) make it a Severance kind of town.

Meanwhile, Jake Yager makes a trip over from Porter County with strawberries. I don't know whether the 64-year-old was bragging or complaining about having picked 1,500 boxes of berries. Perhaps he didn't do all the picking himself.


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From the Hobart Gazette of Oct. 1, 1920.

(Also, an update on the Melvin Guernsey family as they flee from farming.)